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Children taking ordinary drugs (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

toots

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'drugs' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'children taking ordinary' is the wordplay.
'children' becomes 'tots' (tot is a kind of child).
'taking' indicates putting letters inside.
'ordinary' becomes 'O' (abbreviation e.g. O-Levels).
'tots' placed around 'o' is 'TOOTS'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for toots that I've seen before include "Beeps" , "Sounds alarm as motorist" , "Honks horn" , "Horn sounds - honey" , "gentle Dickensian" .)

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